NUTR 191 — Fitness Training Field Experience
This field experience is designed to orient the student to the operation of a fitness center and learn how personal trainers and group fitness instructors operate within the organization. The purpose of this field experience is for the student to be able to practice the competencies learned in fundamentals of personal training, observe and participate in group fitness class instruction and understand the key concepts in the overall management of a fitness center, with a speci al emphasis on common exercise modifications, program design for client exercises, program design for fitness classes tailored to their specific modalities, fitness client intake forms and procedures (covering HIPPA and how to process medical releases), em ployee classifications, and best practices in the fitness industry. The on -site portion of this field experience will be completed in 45 hours, set up as 3 hour blocks, twice per week for 8 weeks. Prerequisite(s): NUTR-190 Corequisite(s): none